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“When he laughed, he took his gun and sprayed under the bathroom stall and on top of the bathroom stall, so then the bodies started collapsing and blood was going everywhere in the handicapped stall, 30 people squished in there getting shot,” Ventura said.

“He was laughing like he was making fun of the victims.”

“Then Norman had to climb over the bodies to try to climb on top,” she continued. “He said it was just horrific. While he was getting shot, he felt the shots coming into his skin, he felt the warmth of it and he thought he was going to die.”

Norman made it out when police bulldozed through the bathroom wall with an armored BearCat.

“He said, ‘I’m not the shooter, I’m a victim, I’m a victim’ and he put his hands up in the air, and then they went to him,” Ventura said.

“He said must have some protection system, how did all the people around him die, and he was the only one who survived this bathroom stall?”

People gather outside the Stonewall Inn as a vigil is held following the massacre that occurred at a gay Orlando nightclub on June 12, 2016.